3 . Silence is unnatural to man.He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness.In between he does all he can to make a noise in the world,and he fears silence more than anything else.Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence.If he is introduced to another person,and a number of pauses occur in the conversation,he regards himself as a failure,a worthless person,and is full of envy of the emptiest-headed chatterbox（喋喋不休的人）. He knows that ninety nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly,but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure（蜡塑人像）.

The aim of conversation is not,for the most part,to communicate ideas;it is to keep up the buzzing sound.There are,it must be admitted,different qualities of buzz;there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito.But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person.Most buzzing, fortunately,is pleasant to the ear,and some of it is pleasant even to the mind.He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbors.

Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk.Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new.Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears,though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel.At the end of an evening,during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time.They just prove themselves to be successful conservationists.

7 . Michelle Swan, a 33-year-old mother, says she was ordered off a bus into the cold and rain by the driver because one of her twin toddlers(学步的小孩) was crying.

Michelle Swan says the driver stopped the bus angrily, walked up to her and shouted at her to shut up her son and get off the bus. Afterwards, she had a 30-minute walk into a nearby town Tonbridge in the cold and rain.

Ms. Swan said: “I was shaking and fighting back tears. I just froze. I felt awful. I’d been to hospital with one of the boys because he can’t walk properly. I had been to a hospital appointment. About every two weeks he goes to see the doctor. We go about three or four times a month. I had tried everything to stop Rocco crying, but it was useless,”

After she was forced to get off the bus, she had to walk in to Tonbridge town centre to get her prescription(处方) when it was so cold in the rain and then on home.

She telephoned the company and said she wanted an apology from the driver.

The manager from the company spoke to Miss Swan for around 15 minutes on the phone and listened carefully to everything she had to say. Then he apologised several times to her. Meanwhile, he took down the code(密码) on her bus ticket to find out who the driver was. As a result, the driver was spoken to and left work for one day.

8 . I have forgotten the name of the old lady, who was a customer on my newspaper route. Yet it ______ in my memory that she taught me a lesson in ______ that I shall never forget.

On a winter afternoon, a friend and I were ______ stones onto the roof of the old lady's house near her garden. The ______ was to observe how the stones changed into missiles(导弹) as they ______ to the roof 's edge and fell into the yard like comets falling from the ______. I found myself a perfectly smooth rock and threw it. The stone was too ______, however, so it slipped from my hand as I let it go and headed straight for a small ______. At the sound of broken glass, we knew we were in ______. We ran faster than any of our stones flew off her roof.

I was too ______ about getting caught that first night to be ______ about the old lady with the broken window in winter. ______, a few days later, when I was sure that I hadn't been discovered, I started to feel ______ for her trouble. She still greeted me with a smile each day when I gave her the newspaper, but I was no longer able to act ______ when seeing her.

I decided that I would save my paper delivery money, and in three weeks I had the seven dollars that I thought would ______ the cost of her window and sent it to her in an envelope.

The next day, I ______ the old lady her paper. She thanked me for the paper and gave me a bag of biscuits she had made herself. I thanked her and ate the biscuits ______ I continued my route.

After several cookies, I felt an envelope and pulled it out of the ______. When I opened the envelope, I was______. Inside were the seven dollars and a short note that______, “I'm proud of you.”

Dr. Yuan Longping was     1     pioneer of agriculture in China. He     2     (graduate) from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. Since then he devoted his life to     3     (find) ways to grow more rice. The rice farmers are now     4     (produce) harvest twice as large as before by growing his kind of rice.     5     he was not satisfied with his work.     6     now he leads a rich life, he still goes on with his work to develop his rice. I think his work is     7     (real) important to the world. Because of his hard work, the production of food has been improved. And the problem of     8     (hungry) can be solved. Thanks to Yuan's great work, millions of people can benefit     9     his extraordinary work. Yuan’s remarkable     10     (achieve) in hybrid rice research have previously won him numerous honors.

10 . Harriet Tubman was born a slave. She didn’t get a _________ to go to school. _________ a child, Harriet had to work very hard in _________ all day. That way, her owner could _________ a lot of money when he sold his crops. Harriet _________ think that she was being treated fairly.

_________ Harriet grew up, she ran away from the plantation(种植园) to the northern United States. There，and in Canada, _________ could be free.

Harriet liked to be free. She felt _________ for all of the black people who were _________ slaves.

Harriet returned to __________ to help other slaves to run away. She made __________ that they got to the north and became free.

Harriet was in great __________ because of a law that __________. The law said it was not permitted to __________ slaves run away. She also __________ that the slave owners said they would __________ 4000 dollars to anyone who could catch Harriet Tubman.

There were many stories about Harriet __________ slaves run away. In all, she made nineteen trips back to the South and guided about 300 slaves to __________. When the Civil War broke out, the northern states __________ against the southern states. Harriet __________ the northern states because the northerners believed that slaves should be free. She worked as a nurse and spied behind enemy lines until the northern states won the war.